How do firms innovate?

Jeroen de Jong and Orietta Marsili

No H200407, Scales Research Reports from EIM Business and Policy Research

Abstract: This paper classifies Dutch innovative SMEs into four clusters with similar innovation patterns: supplier-dominated, client-driven, science-based and input-intensive firms. The classification is compiled using some new indicators that are particularly relevant to innovation in SMEs. We used the firm level as unit of classification; a departure from previous taxonomic studies. Doing so enabled us to assess the heterogeneity of firms within a particular sector. Our results indicate that differences between manufacturing and services sectors should not be exaggerated. Besides, firms are very diverse in how they handle innovation processes.

Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2004-12-09
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.entrepreneurship-sme.eu/pdf-ez/H200407.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eim:papers:h200407

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Scales Research Reports from EIM Business and Policy Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Webmaster EIM ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).